Middle English for Muggles
What did Tyndale mean by that?
Within this lexicon you will find delights such as
gestyngestocke, bakemeates, feldedevels perhaps words we really ought to have kept.
And you may occasionally discover that the youth of today
know rather more Early Modern English than they realise.
Hebrew and Greek are supplementary reference information, not assertions about the exact source text.A small clarification: despite the page title, the language here is Early Modern English — the English of Tyndale, Shakespeare, and their contemporaries.
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